Good
morning Mr. President.
To be
perfectly honest, there is nothing that you can say that will change
my mind about planned limited strike intervention in the Syrian civil
war.
There
are not enough pictures of the dead bodies of children to affect my
thinking on this subject, because as a country, we do not and never
have had the moral ground on this issue. Our national war policies
have always been dictated by money, not humanitarian concern for our
brothers, and certainly not for our brothers' wives, women and
children.
Past
history has shown repeatedly that if the American masters of the
universe can't turn a quick buck, then the American corporate puppets who
claim to represent the people, turn a blind eye pretending that the
problem belongs to someone else. And I am surprised that you, Mr.
President, have joined the warmongering neocons that citizens voted
out of office in 2008, resulting in your ascendency to the Oval
Office. You said you would end these senseless global police
actions, and I believed you. Instead, what I am seeing is a half
assed attempt at promoting American Exceptionalism, as it is called
these days, without naming it officially.
Your
WWII analogy is an apples to oranges comparison that falls flat. We
didn't enter WWII to save the countless Jews, Roma, and gay men and
women swept up in that genocidal holocaust. History shows that
America knew about the holocaust long before officially admitting it.
We didn't end Jim Crow segregation because we cared about the rights
of Black Americans, some of whom were in the process of dying for
this country. The dead were collateral damage, in the very same way
that the US now turns a blind eye toward modern day Israeli
atrocities and apartheid routinely and regularly committed against
the Palestinians by the descendants of that very holocaust.
The US
totally ignored the genocide of Rwanda which still rages today, just
as other than platitudes, the US chooses to ignore the genocide of
black men and boys raging right here in America. A genocide
camouflaged by talk of second amendment constitutional rights, that
not even the killings of little white children in white suburbia USA,
have been able to move the conversation forward.
Your
tears for the 400 Syrian babies are not enough, Mr. President. In
order to command the moral ground, you must cry for all of the
children nationwide and worldwide, not just the ones who die where it
is financially feasible to take a stand.
If news
reports are correct, the US recently sold Saudi Arabia 60 billion
dollars in bombs, guns and planes. Why not let them deal with the
problems in their neighborhood. The Saudis are on record anyway as
saying they will take care of Syria if America won't. Let's take them
up on that offer. Our days of supplying all the weapons as well as
rebuilding once the war is over, should end now. There is always the
move toward peace and like the journey of a thousand miles, it begins
with only one step. Why not take that one step now, Mr. President?
And what
about Plan B, Mr. President? What do we do after the limited strikes
are over? Do we arm the rebels, like we did in Afghanistan? Do we do
another Iran-Contra trade thing? Do we work to overthrow another
government, like in Iran and countless other Central and South
American countries, again? Do we send in the troops, the boots on the
ground, like in Vietnam or Iraq? Do we initiate another shaky cease
fire like between the Koreas and then wait for it to blow up in our
faces, again?
What do
we do, Mr. President? What do we do while you pour our money down
another sand hole by bombing to oblivion another Middle Eastern
country, so that after strafing it into submission we can swoop in
and build it up again, while our own cities go
bankrupt, our schools disintegrate and our utilities and
infrastructure fall into ruin.
Why do
Americans have to die again, Mr. President because the rich want to
make more money? Why are you so happy to appease them instead of
showing concern for those who elected you? I say that because you
have already implied that you will go against citizens' wishes and
bomb anyway, should you lose the vote in Congress. You do have that
power, thanks to George W Bush and the Patriot Act.
But even
though your predecessor gave you the power, we the people put you in
position to use that power, and we are asking you to work for us, for
a change. We the people, don't want another senseless military
action.
We want
peace, Mr. President, a lasting end to the needless violence that
goes on and on and on.
Be the
change, that you promised us you are. The polls show that we've
changed. Now it's your turn.
Respectfully,
No comments:
Post a Comment